Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 19:23:10 +0100 (MEZ) From: Rainer M Duffner <Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de> To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: SAP will _release_ a Linux port of R/3 in Q3/99 !!! Message-ID: <Marcel-1.46-0301182310-b49Zsav@duffner.surf24.de>
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Well, most of you will probably have not even heard about R/3 before (and this is a FreeBSD-list anyway), so what does that mean for Joe User ? R/3 is, basically said, a huge piece of software that can run a whole, worldwide enterprise. If you thought Oracle, Informix, Wordperfect or Staroffice were a huge step forward for Open Source Software, R/3 is a WARP-2 jump. Perhaps even more important than if Microsoft had ported Office to Linux and released the sourcecode. Rumours went for nearly 6 months that there was "something" - but SAP always denied. Like Oracle, Informix and Lotus denied. If you thought 1998 was a "good" year, the first 2 months of 1999 are already better :-) It is really important to note that Windows NT only started to take-up in the large companies, when SAP released a version of R/3 that ran on NT. To summarize, this means that the people around you, who consider Linux/FreeBSD basically as a nice toy-OS, should ask themselves if the _real_ toy OS isn't running on their desktops, with animated paperclips and flashy mouse-pointers, while they try to write an email with Outlook. news.com has some lines on it - visitors of the German CeBit-show in Hannover will be able to see a runnig R/3-system on Linux. Live. cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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